Myra, or Alice, Biddulph [1877-1877], Kilmainham, Dublin

Myra Biddulph was the daughter of Francis Edward Biddulph, Brevet-Major, 9^th Regiment, and his wife Annabella. She is a mystery as, while there is no mention of a Myra in the family, she appears as Myra in the official civil records.  She is believed to have been called Alice by the family. There are no civil records of a birth or a death of Alice. Possibly she was called after her sister Isabella Alice who died in Pembroke Dock in 1875.

Myra, or Alice, was born on the 29^th of August 1877, in Rosemount, New Kilmainham, Dublin.

Biddulph - August 29th, at Rosemount, New Kilmainham, the wife of Captain F.E. Biddulph, 9th Regiment, of a daughter, who survived her birth only two days.

 

She was buried on the 4^th of September 1877 in Grangegorman Military Cemetery.

Myra Biddulph, bur. 4 Sept 1877, age 3 days, infant daughter of Corp. Biddulph, 9th Regiment.[1]

What grief there must have been at the death of another child after the sad deaths in Wales.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] http://www.interment.net/data/ireland/dublin/grangegorman/greg_af.htm

Isabella Alice Biddulph [1874-1875] and Ormus Llewellyn Biddulph [1874-1874], Pembroke Dock, Wales

Isabella Alice and Ormus Llewellyn Biddulph were born on the 12^th of February 1874 at Upper Law [sic] Street, Pembroke Dock, Wales, twin children of Francis Edward Biddulph and his wife Annabella.

BIDDULPH - February 12th, at Pembroke Dock, South Wales, the wife of Captain Francis E. Biddulph, 9th Regiment, of twins (boy and girl).[1]

They were baptised on April the 11^th, at St. John the Evangelist’s, by Geo Wylde, Chaplain to the Forces.

 

Ormus Llewellyn died on the 2^nd of September 1874. He is buried in Llanion Cemetery.

BURIAL 5 September 1874. Pembrokeshire County Council. Llanion Cemetery, Pembroke Dock. Grave reference G/42[2]

Isabella Alice died on the 6^th of March 1875, also at Pembroke Dock.

 

Deaths. At Pembroke Dock, on the 5th inst., Edith, aged 3 years, and on the 6th William, aged 4 years, same day, Isabella, aged 1 year, the dearly beloved children of Capt. Biddulph. 1st Bat., 9th Regiment.

She is buried in Llanion Cemetery with Ormus.

BURIAL 9 March 1875. Pembrokeshire County Council. Llanion Cemetery, Pembroke Dock. Grave reference G/42.[3]

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[1]  Irish Times Mon February 16, 1874

[2]  https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch

[3]  Ibid.

Ethel Emily Biddulph [1872-1875]

Ethel Emily Biddulph was the second daughter of Francis Edward Biddulph and his wife Annabella. Her older sister, Catherine, had died in India in 1869 so Ethel was now the only girl.

She was born in Aghada, County Cork on the 6^th of Feb 1872, and baptised on the 14^th of February 1872. Her baptismal sponsors were Richard E. Biddulph, Harriet Anderson, and Margaret Kennedy.

Richard Edmund Biddulph was her half uncle, half brother of her father Francis. He was 20 years old at the time, and studying in Trinity College in Dublin. He later joined the Royal Navy as a Surgeon.

Margaret Kennedy was her maternal grandmother, and the widow of John Campbell Kennedy.

Who was Harriet Anderson?

 

Ethel Emily Biddulph died on the 5^th of March 1875, in Pembroke Dock, Wales. She was three years old.

Deaths. At Pembroke Dock, on the 5th inst., Edith, aged 3 years, and on the 6th William, aged 4 years, same day, Isabella, aged 1 year, the dearly beloved children of Capt. Biddulph. 1st Bat., 9th Regiment.

She is buried in Llanion Cemetery, Pembroke Dock, with her siblings.

BURIAL 9 March 1875. Pembrokeshire County Council. Llanion Cemetery, Pembroke Dock. Grave reference G/43.[1]

 

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[1] https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch

 

William Henry Biddulph [1870-1875]

William Henry Biddulph was the sixth son of Francis Edward Biddulph, and his wife Annabella.  He was born on the 20^th of October 1870 at 17 Montpelier Hill, Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, Dublin. He was baptised on the 19^th of December  1870 in the Church of Ireland  Parish of St. Paul, in the City of Dublin.

His father, Francis, was a Captain in H.M.  9^th Regiment of Foot.

He died at Pembroke Dock, Wales, in 1875.

Deaths. At Pembroke Dock, on the 5th inst., Edith,aged 3 years, and on the 6th Wiliiam, aged 4 years, same day, Isabella, aged 1 year, the dearly beloved children of Capt. Biddulph. 1st Bat., 9th Regiment.

William is not buried in the Military Cemetery of St. John's Pembroke Dock but in the civil cemetery with his siblings.

Charles Thomas Biddulph [1869-1900]

Charles Thomas Biddulph was the fifth and youngest surviving son of Francis Edward Biddulph and his wife Annabella. He was born on the 7^th of June 1869  in Bangalore, India, and baptised on the 1^st of July 1869 in  Holy Trinity Garrison Church, Bangalore.

He never married.

Early in his career he joined the Colonial Office, and served as Superintendent of Police in The Gambia. He was later forced to return to England due to ill-health.

In February 1900 he decided to accompany the 3^rd Battalion Leinster Regiment to South Africa. He may not have been fully recovered from the effects of his ill health in the Gambia, as only a few weeks later he died of enteric fever at Queenstown, South Africa, on April 26th, 1900. Typhoid fever (enteric fever) is an infection caused by the bacteria Salmonella typhi (S typhi) or contaminated food.

He was buried with full military honours. His gravestone carries the following inscription.

Sacred to the Memory of Capt. Charles Biddulph 3^rd Bn. Leinster Regt., second son of Colonel Biddulph formerly commanding H.M. 9^th Regiment of Foot who died of Enteric Fever at the Frontier Hospital, Queenstown on the 26. of April 1900.

In the midst of life we are in death.

This Memorial is erected by his brother officers H. C. officers and men as a mark of esteem.

 

There is a memorial obelisk in Birr, County Offaly, which bears, among others, Capt. Charles Biddulph’s name. It is located in the military cemetery near the ruined barracks at Crinkill.

This Monument was erected by the Officers warrant Officers Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the 3^rd Batt., Leinster Regiment in Memory of their Comrades who were killed in action and died of disease in South Africa during embodiment between 18 January 1900 and the 26^th May 1902.[1]

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[1] http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/pdf/557.pdf

Catherine Mary Biddulph [1861-1869]

 

 

Catherine Mary Biddulph, known in the family as Kate, was the eldest child of Francis Edward Biddulph and his wife Annabella. She was born in Haddington Road, Dublin on the 25^th of November 1861.

Births, on the 25th inst, in Dublin, the wife of Francis [?] Biddulph, Esq., 12th Regiment, of a daughter.[1]

The family sailed for the Mediterranean on H.M.S.Trafalgar in 1863. Kate’s brother Nicholas Trafalgar was born at sea on the 6^th of December.

Two more children were born in Tonghoo, British Burmah. Francis was born on the 9^th December 1865 and survived four days. He died of convulsions. Hugh Wray Biddulph was born on the 12^th of November 1866.

The family then moved to Bangalore, India, where Arthur Stuart Biddulph was born in 1868 and Charles Thomas Biddulph was born the following year in 1869.

Kate died of typhoid fever at 6 Ulsoor Rd., Bangalore, India, on the 24^th of July 1869, aged seven years and eight months. Her burial is recorded in Bangalore Trinity Church.

By October 1870 the family had returned to Ireland.

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[1] Nenagh Guardian, Wed., Nov. 27, 1861

 

 

 

 

Arthur Stuart Biddulph [1868 – 1878]

Arthur Stuart Biddulph was the third son of Francis Edward Biddulph of Birr, County Offaly, and his wife Annabella. He was born in Bangalore, Madras, India on the 13^th of April 1868, where his father was a Captain in Her Majesty’s  2^nd Battalion, 19^th Regiment, and baptised on the 4^th June 1868 in Holy Trinity church, Bangalore. St Mark’s Cathedral, Bangalore, was built in 1808 for the British Army. It catered only to the English-speaking congregation following East India Company's one-station-one-church policy. However people in the area began pressurising the British Army for a second church and Holy Trinity Church was built in 1851, for the British Regiment stationed in Bangalore.

 

The family returned to Wales from India, and then to Ireland.

Sadly Arthur died in Ireland, aged 10, at his grandfather’s home, Congor House, Merton Hall, in County Tipperary in 1878.

On the 7th inst. at Congor House, county Tipperary, the residence of his grandfather, Arthur Stuart, third son of Lieut.-Colonel Francis Edward Biddulph, of John's-place, Parsonstown, late of the 9th regiment, aged 10 years.

He died of hip joint disease, possibly tuberculosis. His parents appear to have been living in John’s Place, Birr, at the time. Perhaps they had not yet moved into St. Kilda’s which was to be their permanent home.

He is buried in Congor graveyard where Ardcroney Church used to stand. Ardcroney church was removed, stone by stone, in 1996, and rebuilt in the folk village at Bunratty Castle, County Clare. Beneath one of the windows there is a carved memorial to Annie Biddulph, Arthur’s half aunt, who died in Birr in 1901. There is still a gravestone in Congor.

Biddulph

Erected by their children in memory of Nicholas Biddulph, J.P., of Congor House, died 5th April 1888, aged 84 years.

Isabella his wife died 19th September 1888 aged 78 years.

Also Arthur Stuart Biddulph who died 7^th June 1878 aged 10 years.

In memory of Mary Biddulph who died 1st January 1914. Also her sister Annie who died 21st September 1901. Birr View, Birr.

'I am the resurrection and the Life.'

Arthur’s death had been preceded by a time of great sadness. Francis and Annabella had lost four children on their return to England from India.

The first, Ormus Llewellyn Biddulph, died on 2 Sept 1874 at Pembroke Dock, Wales. He was only 7 months old and had been born at Pembroke Dock.

Ethel Emily Biddulph, who had been born on the 6^th of February 1872 at Aghada, County Cork, died at Pembroke Dock on the 5^th of March 1875, aged three.  Isabella Alice Biddulph, who was a twin of Ormus Llewellyn, died on the 6^th of March 1875. William Henry Biddulph, who had been born in Dublin, also died on the 6^th of March 1875. He was four and a half years old.

Deaths. At Pembroke Dock, on the 5th inst., Edith, aged 3 years, and on the 6th William, aged 4 years, same day, Isabella, aged 1 year, the dearly beloved children of Capt. Biddulph. 1st Bat., 9th Regiment.

All were buried at Llanion Cemetery on the 9^th of March 1875. [1]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] BURIAL 9 March 1875. Llanion Cemetery, Pembroke Dock. Grave reference G/42